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Ajanta Mendis is proving too much for the Indian batsmen. Except for Gambhir, who scored 72, none of the Indian batsmen clicked. India needed the heroics of Zaheer (32 ) to reach a respectable score of 249. They were 199/9, thanks to Mendis taking five wickets ! Is is the end of the Indian Seniors ?

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It's time again for one of my bi monthly hip hop charts return. I'm really trying to keep with all the music dropping lately. I can't say hip hop is as good as it used to be, but there is a lot of "good" music out there, more than I can my tabs on. While there is a lot of "good" music out there, I've been stuck in some of my favorite albums of late. Sometimes I get stuck on certain albums, just

Heavy.com is capitalizing on the race to monetize online video by spinning off its advertising platform, Husky Media. Husky Media got its start as the internal advertising unit of the online video destination, but quickly gained traction for its unique approach to video monetization, claimed Simon Assad, co-CEO of The Heavy Corporation. Husky sells advertising "skins" that frame each video, provid

I have started to fill in application-forms for preschools. - Wow, you're really organized, said a friend of mine. He's only seven months.I feel the opposite since waiting lists are fierce, and another friend asked me if I had signed up when I was still pregnant.One thing that gets to me is that you have to fill in the application-form before you get invited to take a tour of the facilities. And w

WYDU just recently went over 500 posts. I was going to do something special for the 500 posts milestone, but in all honesty with some "extracurricular" activities going on in my life and the holiday weekend this past weekend, I spaced it off. I guess I'll save my idea for The Daughter's three year birthday. But looking back at the sheer number of "500 posts", it kind of boggles my mind. Obviously

[Regina Walton's Expat Interviews] 'Kid Millionaire' spins in SeoulThere is much buzz surrounding Steve Aoki, aka, Kid Millionaire, his companies, and his celebrity lifestyle. Was I going to meet someone who is caught up in the glitz of it all -- or was I going to meet someone who is successful in his own right, but is also a nice person to talk to?He turned out to be a nice guy.I spoke to Aoki ju

If your dating hasn’t led you to your life partner yet, then you might want to try a different approach. The following guidelines will help you find your soul mate. 1. Showing up Show up on time, but come as you are. Forget about showering and finding the perfect outfit. Go ahead and arrive after working out at the gym, running, or meeting with your parole officer. When married, we usually don

Ahhh, the weekly charts is blessing us with it's presence once again. It was something that was supposed to be a weekly thing, but like a lot of other things on this blog, I kind of do it when I have the time and/or the energy. Regardless, there a lot of songs I'm enjoying, while not all that many actual albums. Here are a few blessing the iPod.. Top 10 Tracks 10. The Program - Gotta Get The

Time again to go over what I've been listening to in the old iPod (yes, I finally joined the revolution). There are some great songs that I play over and over lately, which is always good to have, but as far as full albums go, it's been kind of weak so far this year. Be on the look out my opinion on the first quarter along with another special blogging guest here later this week. I'm sure there

David Marash: Falling off the turnip truck. David Marash, the television news journalist who quit Al Jazeera English in a huff, apparently just fell off the turnip truck. He discovered that Al Jazeera English is an “authentic regional voice” that represents, get ready for this, the viewpoint of Arabs. In a Q&A with the usually reliable Columbia Journalism Review, Marash glosses over the fact that he was fired from his anchor job and sent back to reporting. Interviewer Brent Cunningham, who tsks tsks over Al Jazeera's professional failures in a superior manner, fails to challenge Marash on it. Said Marash of Al Jazeera English: “Over the last nine months, in particular, bureau autonomy has almost completely disappeared and rather than being a multivoiced, multipolar news channe

DISH Network went into spin mode yesterday, issuing a press release detailing their HD plan for the rest of 2007. The release promised local HD in several new markets over the next two months. Overall, DISH Network claims it will increase its local HD offerings by 60 percent. Here is a rundown of the new [...]

I told you it'd be hard to keep these little lists up and going on a regular basis, but here is another edition of spins, tracks and thoughts for the week. Doing a little backwards this weekend, with these going first and then the "Goodies From The Inbox" coming up later. Enjoy.. Top 10 Spins for the Week of March 9th 10. Pillowtalk Politiks - Not Preaching I featured Pillowtalk Politiks' EP

DYMO is a company selling embossers, hand-held label makers, desktop label makers and other stuff that helps people organize and identify their home, office or worksite. What is interesting for us is that DYMO connects to the printing world via its newly announced DiscPainter. You may rest assured that this compact disc printer is “optimized for [...]

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Zogby chose to marginalize Ron Paul by highlighting a demographic that was won was by Rudy Giuliani, while largely ignoring the fact that the Texas Congressman completely dominated almost every other aspect of the poll.read more | digg story

Lara Dutta spins a web Actress Lara Dutta’s popularity is soaring. And the girl, who was in Paris recently for a book launch, is determined to maintain good relations with one and all, and most of all her fans. For this, she has launched her own official website and will interact with her admirers through the Internet. “I’m here because of them. It’ll be a good experience interacting with them

Samsung claims to have created the world’s fastest dual-layer DVD burner, a drive with Lightscribe label-etching technology that can write a DVD+R DL disc at 16x speed.Samsung said that since 10-12x is the current standard for dual-layer burning, its new internal drive, the SH-S203N, takes a 30-40 per cent less time to fill a dual-layer disc.The drive's other write speeds aren’t world firsts, but keep up with rivals’ dual-layer drives. For example, the SH-S203N writes to DVD-R dual-layer media at 12x and single-layer DVD±R at 20x. By contrast, Toshiba’s dual-layer SD-R5472 drive writes to dual-layer DVD+R discs at 6x and single-layer DVD+RW at 8x.The SH-S203N drive has a 1.5Gbps SATA interface.

Another way to get users to use voice or VoIP. SpinVox has managed to do what other Voice or VoIP providers failed to notice. Get people to blog or twitter over voice. I think I wrote about spinvox technology being used with Skype to blog. Wonder why I did not hear about it much?WeSeePeople: SpinVox spins Voice into Social Networking and Micro Blogging.

We’ve been hearing of these mythical chimeras of hard drives for years now - partially solid state, part traditional platter, all ferocious performance - but it looks as though Seagate is finally ready to serve up to the masses a laptop sized hard disk that makes real the impressive concept. For those not up to speed, a hybrid HDD combines two non-volatile storage devices into one package, flash and magnetic recording, and claims to offer the best of both worlds. Flash storage, the kind that can often be found around the necks of the less fashion-privileged of technoids, is highly prized for the speed with which data can be retrieved from it, and for the minuscule amount of energy it requires to operate. However, the data density of flash storage (think bits per square inch), despite recent advances in the technology, lags far behind traditional magnetic storage. Hybrid drives, like their automobile 2nd cousins, combine the traditional electromechanical systems we know with new e

I think we should put some new spins on this contest.  As it is right now there isn’t so much at stake.  Yeah, someone can insult someone’s mama but after that episode we’re not even thinking about him anymore.  It’s not that I don’t think we should be having the show, it’s that I want Yo Mama to have more consequences.  Here are a few ideas: 1.  Whoever loses should have to go to his old neighborhood and walk around with a sign on that has the best insult about his mama, but it would say something like, “my mama’s so fat…..” or “my mama’s so stupid……”.  That would keep out the guys who shouldn’t be there to start with and keep it real. 2.  Whoever wins should be able to insult the other guys mama while the other guy has to sit and watch, as in, “you’re so fat….” Or “you’re so stupid….”. I think if we had a few of these consequences the competition would be much much more interesting.

North Carolina college radio host Johnny Walker has unofficially broken the former Guinness World Record for longest continuous radio broadcast by an individual on the air with a set that ran for 175.25 hours. Walker, 39, launched his quest on WUAG FM (the student-run station of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) with the track "Crush" by Paul van Dyk on Monday, August 6 at 6 am. He switched off his microphone on August 13 at 1:15 pm. The local paper Go Triad ran a daily diary of the entire broadcast, including the facts that raw garlic and pumpkin seeds helped Walker fight the urge to sleep.Under the strict Guinness rules, to count as a continuous broadcast, a talent can only take one five-minute break per hour (which can be stockpiled and used for a longer break), no song played can be longer than six minutes and during interviews, the broadcaster must speak at least once per minute. The entire process must be recorded and videotaped. The previous record of 125 hours

Everybody seemed to like my post about Searching for God in Google, and I thought it might be fun for me to continue doing these posts where I show the random things that I surf for and my observations relating to these. I am calling this new category Deejay Danielle, because I will be spinning cool link tracks weekly here on my blog. So be sure to check out my new DJ Danielle posts where I will present you with interesting sites and applications online that you might not have previously noticed. ;)

Easy Entertaining with Michael ChiarelloVacation CelebrationPaella ItalianaSliced Orange Salad with Sauteed Olives and Ricotta SalataSparkling SangriaSerrano Ham and Manchego Cheese PlateTo get the recipes: Click hereBack from visiting his daughter in Spain, Michael brought back some recipes that he’s adapted to his own way of cooking.MC starts with an Italian spin on paella, explaining that “paella is to Spain what risotto is to Italians,” and that each region puts its own spin on the dish. Today he’s using chicken, sausage and shrimp. He dices his vegetables – onions, celery, and carrots - very finely. I must say, I don’t remember EVER seeing celery or carrots in a paella, but we must remember he’s doing this Italian style.Michael heats his Dutch oven and adds ¼ cup olive oil. Obviously, if he WERE making real paella, he would use a wide shallow pan that doesn’t have to have a particularly thick base. In fact, the crust that develops on the bottom is the most prized

Filmmaker says he broke no laws. Michael Moore, creator of Fahrenheit 9/11, is facing a U.S. probe into his recent visit to Cuba in March to film a segment of his new documentary SiCKO. Moore has...

America’s cultural police have launched a crusade. The enemy: hip-hop. The offense: popularizing slang terminology to the point where an old man can toss it into public conversation without thinking he has committed a mortal sin. The point: no one’s quite sure right now, but as soon as they figure it out they’ll let us know. Now here comes Verizon Wireless and a corporate-sponsored moral crusade against Akon.

Brother Ali indignantly invokes Rhymesayers DIY-ethic on Undisputed Truth opener "Whatcha Got": Y'all ain't heard nothin', I gave you ya first lesson/ for what you discussin' over the percussion/ You'll ne'er compare to me...repeating what you hear flyin' through the airwaves carelessly/ The meaning gets lost in translation/ You a copy of the author's first page/ Tryin' ta get money, only get it in small denomination/ You'll never be dominant, face it, ya imitation/ Equals saccharine, cheap-ass generic aspirin/ Fructose corn syrup, similak-in'/ ...

Marshall & Ilsley Corp. is close to spinning off data processing firm Metavante in a potential $4 billion deal, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The deal would involve New York private...

Recently in New Britain, 1.5 million people or so signed an online petition to voice their opposition to the introduction of road tolls. Given that there must be millions of people either too old or too young to drive, that figure must represent a very large proportion of the driving public. What was the government’s response? To email 1.5 million people to tell them that they were wrong and that they should trust Tony Blair and New Labour to get things right on their behalf. So, a focus group comprising twelve circus performers can influence and steer government policy, but 1.5 million people have to be taught the error of their ways. You know the game is up when even aspiring hopefuls looking for preferment within the Party start to say the Emperor has no clothes. Mr Cruddas, a contender for Labour’s deputy leadership, fears an over-reliance on focus groups searching for the views of the elusive “swing voter”. This is turning Tony Blair’s regime into a c

Today headlines filled my feeds about an ice skating rink in Alabama that was torn apart in a thunderstorm. The worst part? The building had 31 preschoolers in it. Headlines looked like this: Storm destroys skating rink full of preschoolers  (cnn.com) Storm Destroys Montgomery Skating Rink, Preschoolers Inside (wtvynews4.com) Devastating Storms Leave Death, Destruction (wdiv) Storm destroys Montgomery skating rink full of children (The Decatur Daily) Storm wrecks skate rink; kids inside (Yahoo! News) Storms wreck Ala. skate rink filled with preschoolers (San Diego Union Tribune) Preschoolers Hurt in Stormy Weather (First Coast News) Children escape death in storm (azcentral.com) Hmmm. Where did your mind go while reading those? Did you think about Columbine,or  the Tsnami? W